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Urban Traffic Control

Lindsay zips-up lane closure solutionMoveable barrier systems are offering engineers a new traffic management options. Work zones - be they for maintenance or road widening - are a fact of life and when they occur on major highways, they create no end of problems for traffic planners and travellers alike.

China plans more ITS deployment despite economic slowdownThe Chinese government is turning to ITS to help solve urban traffic congestion in the majority of its large cities. Eugene Gerden reports. China is investing an estimated 3.5bn yuan ($551 million) per year in ITS and while the country's current economic strategy may see this decline, the government plans to continue active development of the national intelligent transport system.

Single system simplicity for smarter city transportAll encompassing, city-wide transport monitoring and control systems are beginning to make their way onto the market, as Colin Sowman hears. The futuristic vision of cities where everything is connected and operated with maximum efficiency by a gigantic computer remains a distant prospect but related sectors and services are beginning to coalesce: transport monitoring and control for instance.

Features

Motown morphs into Mobility CityDetroit was once a byword for urban decay but ITS America recently held its annual meeting there. This gave David Arminas a chance to assess how fast Motor City is moving...

Singapore plans changes to transit systemSingapore has the third-highest population density in the world and the numbers are continuing to grow. The government knows that transit is vital: David Crawford...

TRA 2018: Vienna conference highlightsDigitalisation of transport systems, the regulation of new technologies and more charging points for electric vehicles in cities were among the talking points at this...